Colonial Geography & Economy
This was the main cash crop of Virginia and helped save Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
New England towns were famous for holding this type of democratic meeting.
What is a town meeting?
This religious movement of the 1730s-40s stressed emotional faith over ritual and challenged church authority.
What is the First Great Awakening?
Large Southern farms that relied on enslaved labor were known by this name.
What are plantations?
Joint-stock companies like the Virginia Company helped finance early colonies for this European country.
What is England?
Fertile soil and long growing seasons made the Southern Colonies ideal for producing this type of crop.
What are cash crops?
This term describes how colonists increasingly modeled their culture and politics after Britain.
What is anglicization?
This colony, founded by William Penn, became a refuge for Quakers and promoted religious tolerance.
What is Pennsylvania?
After Bacon’s Rebellion, plantation owners increasingly turned to this labor force.
Who are enslaved Africans?
The triangular trade linked the Americas, Europe, and this continent.
What is Africa?
The Middle Colonies were nicknamed this because of their grain production.
What is the "breadbasket"?
Colonial governors were mostly appointed by this figure.
Who is the king?
This colony was founded by the Puritans and enforced strict religious conformity.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
Colonists in Virginia and Maryland primarily grew this profitable export crop.
What is tobacco?
Plantation owners began relying less on indentured servants and more on slavery because of this economic reason.
What is decline in English labor / rising demand for permanent labor?
Colonists used this labor system before slavery became dominant in the Chesapeake.
What is indentured servitude?
Conflict between wealthy planters and frontier settlers in 1676 exploded into this rebellion.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Preachers like this man traveled throughout the colonies sparking revival meetings.
Who is George Whitefield?
This system promised land to individuals who paid for the passage of workers to Virginia.
What is the headright system?
This forced journey transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
This region had rocky soil, long winters, and depended on shipbuilding and trade.
What is New England?
Virginia created the first elected representative assembly in America, called this.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Maryland passed this law in 1649 to protect religious freedom for Christians.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
Indigo and rice became major cash crops in these colonies.
What are the Carolinas?
Laws like these restricted colonial trade to benefit England under mercantilism.
What are the Navigation Acts?